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Natural Selection

Tom Ball

    Nearly everyone in romance wants to pick someone who is good looking. Who can deny that this is the most important criteria?
    Others pick someone based on primitive instincts, like for example is a man a good breadwinner?
    Very few people would say that the most important thing in a lover is intelligence. And who could say that intelligence is a useful trait anyway? After all most people don’t even like intelligent people much, and really intelligent people often have a very hard time in life.
    Some people would say that human brains have been getting bigger over time and that therefore we are getting more intelligent. They say if you look at history science has slowly marched on, and made our society cleverer.
    Of course using scientists (otherwise known as clever people) was anathema to nearly all of our history. But science in itself even in our time has not made people any smarter. And if you are not a scientist, but a clever person, no one will have much use for you.
    Ask yourself. Do most people try to act intelligently? Or do they act selfishly and call that intelligent behavior?
    X was a clever man who sought to find a highly intelligent wife. He searched the world over and met a number of clever women. However he found that most of these women did not put much stock in being clever and valued other traits more highly. Most of the women regarded X as amusing and wanted to be his platonic friend, but they did not want to become his lover. This was despite the fact that he was handsome and not poor.
    Finally, at age 40, X was forced to marry a kind and gentle woman who was very simple and of mediocre intellect.



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